N.Y. gets waiver to limit middle-school math exams

Feds approve reduced testing

10:44 PM,
Jan. 2, 2014

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New York was granted a federal waiver to cut back on mathematics testing for students in 7th and 8th grades, Education Commissioner John King said Thursday.

The state in October requested the waiver amid growing criticism over the increase in student testing in New York as part of the Common Core curriculum implemented last school year.

The waiver will end the "double testing" of students who take Regents exams in mathematics when they are in seventh or eighth grade and also take a state mathematics assessment. The state will require only the Regents exam starting this spring, King said. ...